Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-03
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to construct five miles of additional street
railway to be operated by steam or cleo
trio motors.
The district temperance convention at
Independence resolved in favor of elimin-
ating from the pharmacy law the provision
allowing the sale of liquor for medicinal
purposes
Intelligence received from Rome said
20 have come through Mgr. Kirby, pres
ident of the Irish college in the Vatican
city, is to the effect sthat new dioces is
to be created in Iowa, with Council Bluffs
as the See city, and that Chicago
priest will be selected as the new
Bishop. Father Cushman is believed to
be the coming man, The Iowa priests
naturally prefer one of their own number,
and the Rev. DR.. B. G. Linehan, of Deni-
son, Father Linehan. of Fort Dodge, the
Vicar General Dubuque, and others are
mentioned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes writes Miss
Blanche Fearing, of Davenport, that he
has received the volumn of her poems
and says to her that there is thought
enough and music enough and feeling
enough in .-,ur little volume to win you
the respectful attention of the critics;
and hope the success of your poetical
venture will meet all your reasonable
hopes and expectations.
The board of trustees of the State Ag-
| ricultural College at Ames have elected
Mr.. Harmon Knapp, now assistant pro-
fessor of Agriculture, as treasurer. recor-
der and land agent of the College, in
place of General Geddes, deceased.
A Council Bluffs dispatch dated Feb
%, SAYS: Mr.. A. s. Crawford, for the
past six years employed in the United
States mail service as transfer clerk at the
transfer Office in this city, was to-day
detected in the act of taking a registered
letter from the table and promptly ar
rested. When discovered he was en-1
deavoring to crowd the package into hs
breast coat pocket. He was given an *
animation before the U. s. Commissioner
this afternoon and admitted to bail h the
sum of So, 500 to await the action ST the
U. s. grand jury. Crawford. it spears,
has been suspected of taking registered
packages for some time and tbs authori-
ties have been watching him, but his
method was so secure that he escaped de-
lection until to-day.
The following articles of incorpora-
ton have been flied with the Secretary of
State. The Dubuque Furniture and
Burial Case Company; capital stock
$50, 900.
Iowa inventors corralled 425 Of the
patents issued last year.
Rabbits are peeling all the apple trees
in the Dacatur county orchards.
Manila, Crawford county, but a few
weeks old, has population of 400.
Des Moines proposes to compel the
railroads running into that city to gate
their crossings.
At Washburn, one night last week, a
young man In fit of somnambulism arose
from his bed. dressed himself and then
built fire in the stove. When the room
was comfortably warm he prepared to
shave himself. He made the lather,
strapped his razor, and after coating his
face well with lather began to tonsure.
His nerve, however, did not appear
steady, and before he had made much
Roadway the razor was gliding down the
beard to the roots Three gashes were
made in his face before he was aroused
from his somnambulistc condition.
The saloon and dwelling property of
Mrs NJ Lambach, four miles west of
Davenport, was burned early on the
morning of Feb. rs. Loss, 81, 500; insur-
ed for So, COO. The occupants were arous-
ed by the barking of dog and narrowly
escaped.
The jury in the case of George Erbst,
at Davenport, after being out 16 hours,
returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the
penalty at II years and half in the
Joliet penitentiary. The verdict is a
great surprise. Erbst fatally stabbed
James jackson ON Christmas night in a
saloon row in Rock Island.
After overruliug motion for new
trial Judge Lewis, of Sioux City, sentenc-
ed Geo. Trout to imprisonment in the
Anamosa penitentiary for life for the
murder of Ed. Hatch on the evening of
July 8, 1886.
A bad wreck occurred on the Rock
Island railroad about miles west of Sey-
more, on the morning Of Feb. 26. A
stock train collided with construction
train at the Happy Hollow bridge. The
engineer and fireman of the stock train
jumped from the engine and were both
fatally hurt They were taken to Tren.
ton, Mo-, where the engineer died. The
fireman cannot live long. Thirteen cars
loaded with hogs were thrown from the
bridge and the cars were broken into
splinters.
The last open saloon at Sioux City has
been closed and now the law and order
league announces its intention Of looking
after the "Holes-in- the-wall," or places
where liquor is sold on the sly.
Prophet Foster, of Burlington, furnishes
genuine specimens of March weather in
advance He predicts stormy and tor
nado month, with slight intermissions for
rest and recupcration. Small tornadoes
are on the list for the list and End.
Owners of unsheltered stock in Colorado.
Nebraska, western Kansas, Indian Terri.
tory and northern Texas are likely to
sustain heavy losses from this storm from
the list to Sd as the probabilities largely
favor blizzard" in the former two
States and ''norther" in the others.
The second storm wave will be due on
the Dist meridian March o, and will be
intensified by the earth's nearest approach
to the suns magnetic pole on the 10th
and by the moon passing over the earth's
equator on the same day. Another
storm is looked for on the 18th. The 9Th
storm will strike the country on or about
the 25th, and the last storm for the month
will cross the Mississippi on the 3lst
Further on the prophet says: ''The ex-
cessive rains last of March and first week
in April will damage farming lands in